Yesterday's woman : domestic realism in the English novel / Vineta Colby.
Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability. These novels were read by both sexes, but the majority...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1974.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Summary: | Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles, formed attitudes, and gave to the novel a new status and respectability. These novels were read by both sexes, but the majority were written by women. Vineta Colby examines the works of such minor novelists as Mrs. Gore, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Yonge, and Harriet Martincau, arguing that they prepared the way for the novels of the great Victorian era. Antiromantic and bourgeois in spirit, these domestic novels were conc. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400872657 1400872650 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |